by Jeff Polet, director of the Ford Leadership Forum, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you. –Stealers Wheel Being in the middle has a bad reputation. Middle children often seem willful and resentful. Middle-of-the-road indicates playing it […]
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by Joshua Longmire Ever since Ford pardoned Nixon, the perspective of the press and the nation changed. When Nixon appointed Gerald Ford to be the position of Vice President of the United States, he hoped to find “a caretaker Vice President who would simply fill out Agnew’s unexpired term.”[1] Looking back at the Ford administration,
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by Louis Markos, Houston Christian University Rousseau’s seemingly optimistic theory that man is good in nature (the “noble savage”) but is corrupted by private property and by traditional social, political, and ecclesiastical institutions proved disastrous, leading to the irrational and deadly utopianism of the French Revolution. The French attempt to wipe the slate clean and
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